How's your Walk?

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit - ROM. 8:1KJV

Your steps are ordered according to your control centre. What you get or become is determined by the choices of surrender that you make. If God is in charge, man's approval or disapproval makes no difference. If the flesh is in charge, then you have everything to fear.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death - ROM. 8:2KJV

God operates by laws. Even when he breaks protocol to bless someone, he is guided by the laws of his Word. Life is governed by laws, just as the spiritual realm is also governed by laws. I must settle the eternal question of the law at work in my life. Like it has been said, eternity hangs on the question of my control centre.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:- ROM. 8:3KJV

The law could not address the issue of sin, because it did not understand the origin of sin. God had to send someone who like him existed before sin, so he could be a perfect channel of redemption for man. No amount of labour outside of God can equate to favour. No amount of law-keeping can guarantee you life; Jesus, sent by God, sent in our form, and for our good, is the ONLY way God has approved. His life ends death; his birth ends death; his own condemnation ended our own unworthiness.

That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:4 KJV

If I have accepted the free gift given, I have new life. Everything the law could not do, life in Christ has made it possible. The works part of the law failed miserably, but the righteous requirements of the law found fulfilment in Christ, and for all who receive him,they receive  the power to walk after the Spirit.

We really cannot amount to much outside God's help. My outer walk of faith must match the inner work of grace that God has wrought in me. It will be a major disaster for me to accept God's gift of grace and still persist in works of the flesh. The Holy Spirit is my companion, given to help me walk with God from the present to the eternal. How's your walk? His time of favour is here.